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(transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
(transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
(transitive, now legal) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
(transitive, legal) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
(transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
(transitive, obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
(transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.
(intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
(intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.

I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
The devyll[...]sayde unto hym: all these will I geve the, iff thou wilt faull doune and worship me. Then sayde Jesus unto hym. Avoyde Satan.
What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid?
He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility.
England could have met world and European champions Spain but that eventuality was avoided by Sweden's 2-0 win against France, and Rooney's first goal in a major tournament since scoring twice in the 4-2 victory over Croatia in Lisbon at Euro 2004.
How can these grants of the king's be avoided?
Anone they encountred to gyders / and he with the reed shelde smote hym soo hard that he bare hym ouer to the erthe / There with anone came another Knyght of the castel / and he was smyten so sore that he auoyded his fadel
Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room.

Partisiipin perfekti	avoided
Imperfekti	avoided
Partisiipin preesens	avoiding
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	avoids
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	avoideth (vanhahtava)

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